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Antara | Thu, 08/06/2009 2:46 PM | National Members of the Paskibraka national flag raising team participate in a practice session in Pamekasan, Madura, East Java, on Thursday in preparation for the flag raising ceremony on Independence Day, August 17. Antara/Saiful Bahri tengah bawah

The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Fri, 08/07/2009 8:46 AM | National WS Rendra's family plans to bury the noted poet and artist before Friday prayer around noon at his Bengkel Teater workshop in Citayam Depok. Muhammad Muktar Al Husini, an Islamic teacher at the workshop, told tempointeraktif.com that the family was still waiting the arrival of Rendra's sons Sammy and Jonas from Yogyakarta and Kalimantan, respectively. “God willing, if all the family have gathered, we will bury him before the Friday prayer,” he said. The family, however, also had decided for burial after the Friday prayer in the afternoon if the sons were unable to arrive Friday. Willibrodus Surendra Broto Rendra passed away Thursday at about 10 p.m. at a hospital in Depok. He was 74. (dre)

The Associated Press , New York, US | Fri, 08/07/2009 8:14 AM | World A hacker attack Thursday shut down the fast-growing messaging service Twitter for hours, while Facebook experienced intermittent access problems. Twitter said it suffered a denial-of-service attack, in which hackers command scores of computers toward a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through. The attacks appear to have been related to the Russia-Georgia political conflict. They started with a flurry of spam e-mail messages sent out this morning that contained links to pages written by a single activist on multiple social networking sites, according to Bill Woodcock, research director of the San Francisco-based Packet Clearing House, a nonprofit that tracks Internet traffic. When people clicked on the links, they were taken to legitimate Web pages, but the traffic overwhelmed some servers and disrupted service, Woodcock said. He said i